On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 5:31 AM, Barbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you need it a suitable regex would be: > > qr/(?:\.(?:tar\.(?:gz|bz2)|tgz|zip))/;
Here's a suggested amended version, avoiding ppm and giving front and back anchoring. Also case insensitive, just in case someone uploads a .ZIP file or something like that. qr{\.(?:tar\.(?:bz2|gz|Z)|t(?:gz|bz)|(?<!ppm\.)zip|pm.gz)$}i It also picks up legacy .pm.gz files -- of which there are some, yes, from ancient days of CPAN and for which CPAN.pm will generate a Makefile, fail to find tests and report as UNKNOWN. Any nits? Otherwise, I'll use that in CPAN::Reporter::Smoker. David